Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Discipline	Literature
Language	English
Edited by	Allen MacDuffie and Hannah Wojciehowski
Publication details
History	1911-present
Publisher	University of Texas Press (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Tex. Stud. Lit. Lang.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0040-4691 (print) 1534-7303 (web)
JSTOR	00404691
OCLC no.	45882258
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Texas Studies in Literature and Language, commonly known as TSLL, is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the humanities. It publishes essays reflecting a variety of critical approaches and all periods of literary history, with selected issues centering on special topics. Founded in 1911 as Studies in English, it was subsequently issued as The University of Texas Studies in English (1949-1956) and Texas Studies in English (1957-1958) before assuming its current name. It remains "one of the oldest, if not the oldest, scholarly journals of its kind in North America."^[1]

The journal is published quarterly by the University of Texas Press in Austin, Texas. It is indexed in Academic Search Complete, MLA International Bibliography, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, Book Review Index, ArticleFirst, Periodicals Index Online, ProQuest Research Library, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and Web of Science.

Notable scholars who have published in TSLL include Gordon Braden, Rita Copeland, Louis Montrose, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In addition, in 1962 the journal published an essay by a 24-year-old Joyce Carol Oates (writing as "J.C. Oates") titled "Melville and the Manichean Illusion."^[2]

The journal has sponsored a number of special issues and noteworthy essays. A 2017 special issue on Modernism and Native America, edited by James H. Cox, included the previously unpublished Vine Theatre Manifesto by Cherokee dramatist Lynn Riggs as well as articles on N. Scott Momaday, Todd Downing, and Ernest Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter. In 2018, film scholar Donna Kornhaber curated a special issue devoted to the films of Austin director Wes Anderson. A 2019 special issue, co-edited by Janine Barchas and Devoney Looser, focused on future directions in Jane Austen studies.^[3] Research by John Rumrich into John Milton's blindness was also published in 2019, with the findings and topic discussed by journalist Frank Bruni in a column in The New York Times.^[4][5] In 2021, Domino Perez and Charles Ramirez Berg edited a special issue on the films of Austin director Robert Rodriguez, whom they dubbed "the Wizard of Awe".^[6]

References

1. Heinzelman, Kurt (2012-01-01). "Editor's Note". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 54 (2): 217–218. doi:10.1353/tsl.2012.0015. ISSN 1534-7303. S2CID 201789502.
2. Oates, J. C. (1962). "Melville and the Manichean Illusion". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 4 (1): 117–129. ISSN 0040-4691. JSTOR 40753585.
3. "Project MUSE - Texas Studies in Literature and Language-Volume 61, Number 4, Winter 2019".
4. Rumrich, John (2019). "The Cause and Effect of Milton's Blindness". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 61 (2): 95–115. doi:10.7560/TSLL61201. S2CID 181464052.
5. Bruni, Frank (6 July 2019). "Opinion | Writing with Your Eyes Closed". The New York Times.
6. "Project MUSE - Texas Studies in Literature and Language-Volume 63, Number 2, Summer 2021".

External links

• Official website
• Online access at Project Muse
• Journal page at the Department of English, the University of Texas at Austin